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Phi Beta Kappa Speakers

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A newspaper editor and a poet will share the platform June 10 at the annual Literary Exercises of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

J. Russell Wiggins, editor and executive vice-president of the Washington Post and Times-Herald, will give the Phi Beta Kappa oration. Wiggins, who has been in the newspaper business for more than 40 years, has worked for the Post and the New York Times. He is the author of Freedom Or Secrecy (1956).

John Hay '38, a poet and naturalist, will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa poem. Hay, the president of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, is the author of A Private History, a volume of poems published in 1947.

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